Everywhere I look, on this forum and others about Intel, I see a lot of contempt for AXG
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It's clear that Raja was deadweight at AMD. Just like how Murthy was deadweight at Qualcomm. Intel loves Indians in exec positions who talk a big game but sh*t the bed in results.
Do you mean something besides being a huge drain on corporate financial and talent resources, being two years late to market, delivering terrible software quality, and delivering a non-competitive product?
As a BB SWE in AXG, Raja came in and talked about how we're trapped by "learned helplessness" but then he did nothing to clean up the org. Promoted the same incompetent mgrs and sw architects, mis-allocated HC, and continue the futile and incredible inefficiencies in the org. End result, no surprise, Alchemist is way late, and with poor performance, and even with the driver updates to fix bugs, the org is doomed to failure. Raja didn't do anything about the "learned helplessness" behavior, he just perpetuated it. Plenty of people have left AXG last year and this year, even before CPM.
The guy is simply an a$$h0le and a grifter. He uses his own design agency to create Nike looking commercials for internal meetings. He’s just another big talker Murthy who will take our money and leave suddenly. Nothing to show for it. Driving dedicated leaders out. It’s everyone else’s fault. Intel never learns.
The practice of lavish spending goes back years. T-shirts, outings, dinners, events and such expenses have been the modus of operation for the design teams across the board. I am not surprised that AXG was bestowed such budgets. Except that they can't afford this lavish attitude now. Think of how much could have been done in the past decades. Intel does _not_ have the nimble attitude and flat hierarchies to operate efficiently. Nor does it have the acumen needed to operate in the rapidly changing environment but they have talked about it for long without much to show for it.
He started the GPU work end of 2019 and took on a lot of GPU requirements could not prioritize them and delayed Intel GPU by 3 years. Could have used the COVID years to regroup, reprioritize and deliver. Even today 30% of the PVC yields have to be thrown away. This lack of discipline is what this all about.
They have massively lied on what they will delivery not only to consumers, which is pretty much Intel's SOP, but also to other groups within the company to justify their overblown budgets. Seeing AXG engineers and especially executives get overpaid, have money to throw lavish parties, buy themselves gadgets and stuff caused lots of resentment grow among others working hard to actually make money while suffering constant budget cuts and freezes
x86 baby, that makes all the money, everyone else is a loser
CCG hates AXG for delivering under-performing integrated GPU for years. DCG (DCAI) hates AXG for selling discrete GPU cannibalizing the Xeon products.
Let’s see the result of all of the investments.
The first GPUs were pretty underwhelming.